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SAP HCM - A Complete Tutorial

By : Karthik S
Book Image

SAP HCM - A Complete Tutorial

By: Karthik S

Overview of this book

This book is a simple tutorial guide with practical issues and their solutions, aimed at enabling readers to implement the various features of the SAP HCM module. If you are familiar with ERP products, and would like to leverage knowledge and fine-tune your configuration skills, then this book is for you. This book is aimed at readers who want to learn about SAP HCM and its most popular functionalities.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Index

Infotypes mandatory for payroll processing


Before we start to cover the important configuration points, let's closely look at the mandatory infotypes that need to be maintained to process the payroll for an employee. It's imperative to be familiar with the functionality of payroll-related infotypes before starting the configuration steps.

Payroll infotypes

The work centre basic pay (WPBP) infotype is a critical one, so let's closely look at it:

Infotype

Infotype text

0000

Actions

0001

Organizational assignment

0003

Payroll status

0007

Planned working time

0008

Basic pay

0027

Cost distribution

We will cover the infotype's functionalities in detail in this chapter.

The 0000 (Actions) infotype

The Action infotype is the first infotype that gets updated when a personnel action is performed for an employee. Actions that affect payroll could be promotion, demotion, and so on. There is a standard function, WPBP-FUWPBP, in the INBD subschema. This function reads the master data and transfers...